The burning city, the blurred sky, the grand dance party, the hypocritical expressions, the wonderful performances and the free flying in the blue sky. The pictures intertwined in Xiuyi's mind, and the intricate information almost made him completely lost.

"What are these... what are these? I saw myself, I saw myself killing wildly, it was like a dream." Xiu Yi said in horror.

Fink said in a compassionate tone: "That's not a dream, it's a real occurrence."

"I don't understand!" Xiu Yi shouted: "If that's the case, what's going on now?"

"This is the illusion, the illusion of the magic gate, which is a test. Everything that happens in front of you is something that has happened before, not a real existence!"

"I don't remember."

"That's because that part of the memory is here with me."

"So who are you?"

"I am you... or part of you." Fink looked at Shioyi and said, "When I woke up... it was in Fink's body. But I couldn't control Fink's fate. He was still himself, and I could only play a role occasionally. You and my fate have begun to change. You rejected my previous arrangements and chose another path. Although I tried hard to get everything back on track, I was still rejected by you. Maybe from the beginning, you longed to control your fate in your own way. You don't like my arrangements, nor do you like everything that happened."

Xiu Yi stared at Fink in a daze: "You said you are me?"

Fink shook his head: "To be honest, I don't know either. I used to think I knew who I was, where I came from, and what I wanted to do, but now I don't know anymore. I began to doubt, doubt why I exist. It was like a lonely ghost who couldn't find his own home..."

Xiu Yi was confused: "I don't understand."

"Yes, you don't understand, but the key question now is whether you can get rid of all this. Just like you are trying to change your established destiny, Xiu Yi, do you don't like the feeling of indulgence? Yes, we don't like it, either you or me. But this time I can't help you. You must rely on your own strength to get out of this illusion and get rid of control."

"How do you get out?" Xiu Yi shouted.

"As long as you can prove that all this is false and does not exist, you can come out."

"How to prove it?"

"Use your wisdom, think about it carefully...this is what I can do for you in the end." Fink's voice gradually lowered.

After a while, Fink suddenly raised his head and looked at Xiuyi in horror: "What happened? Xiuyi. Why am I here? Where is this?"

"I don't know either." Xiuyi replied: "Don't you remember what you said to me just now?"

Fink blinked in confusion, and it seemed that he remembered nothing.

Xiu Yi was confused.

In the distance, Pier and Andrew came over.

He looked at Shuyi and Fink with cold eyes.

"Wow, it seems that our friends have seen something and are trying to escape. But where can you escape here?" Andrew said with a strange smile.

Beside him, Pier was snorting with disdain.

Xiuyi looked at Pierna's cold eyes and suddenly felt a strange feeling in his heart.

A picture flashed through my mind, which was Pier's desperate cry before his death.

"I saw your death, Lord Pier," he said suddenly.

Pier paused, and anger appeared on his face: "What are you talking nonsense, little bastard."

"You are dead, there is no reason for you to stand in front of me." Xiuyi replied: "I killed him."

Andrew laughed wildly: "Pier, did you hear it? He said he killed you. This little bastard is simply crazy!"

Shuyi turned to Andrew: "The same is true for you, Lord Andrew. You all do not exist, just my illusion. To be precise... you were created by me. They were created by my memory."

"Oh? Is it?" Andrew continued to laugh strangely: "What would it feel like to be killed by his own memory?"

"I don't know, maybe I won't wake up from now on." Xiu Yi murmured.

Pier said coldly: "That's a pity, but I'm not interested in listening to your nonsense."

"That's not nonsense."

"This is ridiculous." Andrew shook his head, "I have never been so real."

"Is that true?" Xiuyi sneered.

"Of course." Andrew replied: "I have lived in Purgatory Island for twenty years, and came here under the orders of His Majesty the Emperor to work for my mentor, and that's all."

"Then you should know what your family patriarch is called?" Xiu Yi suddenly said.

Andrew immediately shut up, and he looked at Shuyi in horror.

Shuyi shouted: "Answer me, Andrew! You are from the Dalimore family, you won't know what your clan leader is, right?"

Andrew looked at Xiuyi in a dumbfounded manner.

He couldn't answer.

"Don't you know right?" Xiu Yi said coldly: "Everything you know is what I know, but when I ask questions that I don't know and that you should know, you can't answer them. Because your existence is based on my memory."

"No." Andrew shook his head in horror.

He took a few steps back.

Suddenly, his tall body turned into a cloud of smoke and dissipated on the flat ground.

Xiuyi slowly turned to Pier, and Pier's face had become extremely ugly.

Xiu Yi said slowly: "What are the names of those girls you raped and killed?"

"No!" Pier, who could not answer, also turned into smoke and clouds and dissipated.

But the world still exists, and the illusion has not disappeared.

Xiu Yi turned to Fink with a serious expression.

That was the last person standing beside him.

"No, Xiuyi, you can't kill me." Fink took a few steps back: "I'm your friend! Don't kill me!"

"Fink..." Xiuyi's voice was a little dry.

"Shuy, it was me who helped you! It was me who saved you!" Fink shouted loudly: "You can't be so ungrateful! Look, we can live here. We can live here together, please don't kill me!"

Shuyi shook his head: "You are not Fink."

Fink stumbles.

Xiu Yi stared at the other party with a cold look: "You are such a cunning guy. You stole my memories and stripped away my most important memories. Now he is trying to use the friendship between friends to keep me in this illusion forever! You are not Fink, Lord Crippwell!"

Fink's movements solidified.

A mysterious smile suddenly appeared on the freckled boy's face.

He actually started applauding.

"Excellent, Shuiglair, how did you find out that the problem is wrong?" His voice became thick and powerful, and a faint smoke rose around him, covering the entire valley.

The scene gradually changed, the valley no longer existed, and Xiu Yi was in it, which was clearly an extremely wide and huge space.

In front of Xiuyi's eyes, Fink no longer existed. There was only a huge magic crystal floating in the air, and an image of an old man flashed in it.

Xiuyi smiled and looked at the old man: "It's not surprising. I have changed the original events in my memory. I didn't do what happened. I shouldn't have been sent to the valley, but I came there. Everything that shouldn't have happened, and I didn't go as I expected. So the question arises, how did such an experience come about?"

"Don't you think that should be the inevitable result of your choice? Memories can be inferences. A choice must have a result, and a new result is produced." The old man in the crystal ball replied.

"That's right, but the problem is that this is a new script. Although new choices must have new results, this result always needs someone to write it. I am not the person who wrote that result, I just gave the choice. It's like the person who set the question does not have to give the answer in person. Someone gave the new answer according to the question I gave, so I had to realize that there was another person who was secretly manipulating everything. Although he interpreted everything very perfectly, the fact is that he still left traces of manipulation."

"What traces?"

"Andrew and Pier shouldn't have appeared in the canyon at the same time. The reason for this is that you don't know what happened in the canyon. The reason you don't know is that I don't know. I haven't experienced such a scene, so you can only make one of them yourself, which makes the event happen seriously. For example, we were taken to the canyon, but no one cares about us. For example, I can easily escape and walk out of the guardian of the puppet warrior without passing cards..."

"So you realize that it's not just a illusion based on your memory, there's another person and you all get involved."

"Only in this way can the illusion proceed smoothly and normally. Although I don't understand illusion, I know that no illusion can develop freely without anyone's control."

"Then why did you know that it was Fink who was me?"

"Because you can seal my memory, but not my feelings. Human emotions sometimes go beyond everything. When I saw the bloody orchid bit off your finger, I didn't feel a little heartache. At that time, I was surprised at what made me so cold-blooded, but then I understood. Because you are not Fink, you can deceive my eyes, but not my feelings, the instinctive emotions hidden deep in my memory."

"So that's it...you're right. I did not create Fink based on your memory. I played Fink myself, but I hid the memory of your other life in Fink's body. Because only in this way can I get close to you and perfectly control the development of the plot."

"You even simulated a virtual emotion to influence me for this." Xiu Yi showed a disdainful smile on his face. He was referring to the voice that was yelling in his mind.

"I want you to think that's your instinct consciousness."

"If my instinctual consciousness was really healthy, he would never say such things that were mindless and unimportant. He would tell me in the simplest and most direct way, rather than simply accusing me. So from the beginning, I suspected that someone was making a mistake in this consciousness. The purpose of this consciousness was to bring me back to everything I had experienced, and to be a simple Shuiglair who was twelve years old."

"It's a pity that you didn't listen, but pulled out the ghost-faced flower and completely modified all the stories that happened. Are you really not afraid of all the consequences? Is this your wisdom?"

"Wisdom?" Xiu Yi sneered: "What is wisdom? It's nothing more than a response method for various events. Everyone has different ways of thinking about problems, so there are different ways of dealing with them. Some people are rational, and some people are emotional. When I really live on Purgatory Island, survival is the only important thing for me, so everything I do is for survival. But when I live in the illusion you created for me, getting rid of the doubts in my heart, getting rid of the power that tried to manipulate my destiny, and unraveling the unknown mystery. So I have to do the opposite and choose what should not be done. The purpose is very simple, that is, not controlled by fate. If you say this is wisdom, then I'm sorry, I think there is no real wisdom in this world at all. There are only different views on the same event and different results produced after making different choices. As long as that result is what you want, then your means are full of wisdom."

"Well said." If the old man in the crystal ball had hands, he would definitely applaud and praise.

"There is one thing I don't understand." Xiu Yi said: "Although I can still think and retain some ways of thinking that I admit, the disappearing memory does cause me to have major thinking obstacles, and I still cannot make accurate judgments on many things as soon as possible. If I keep doing this, it is very likely that I will not be able to get out of this illusion in the end, and the key to my escape from it is the result of you releasing a small piece of my ontological memory. Don't think I can't guess that you did it on purpose, but I don't understand why."

"Because this is a test, not a killing death. The test must leave clues. Who will give unsolvable questions during the exam?" Crippwell replied: "So I have to give you some tips at the last moment. But I didn't expect that relying on this little tip, you not only successfully defeated Andrew and Pier, but even discovered my existence. Oh, I forgot to tell you that as long as you can defeat Andrew and Pier, you can pass the level. There are not many people who can come to the Western Continent, so I can only choose the goals that meet as much as possible. The so-called rigorous test is just a joke in the case of insufficient candidates... Otherwise, when you send the Abyss Dragon into the Warrior Gate, it will be a corpse. Speaking of which, you are really brave. Don't you know who destroyed the Western Continent?"

"Being human." Xiu Yi quickly replied: "It was destroyed by humans. The Lord of the Abyss Basgate is a human. It is the human who launched the forbidden spell magic to destroy the continent. From any perspective, it is humans who destroyed themselves. I know that the people in the Western Continent hate the demon world, but you can never deny that this fact is the only one who can destroy humans. Any other life, any form, any disaster... is just a tool and a method of expression."

The old man in the crystal ball was silent.

After a long time, he finally sighed: "You are right, child, the Western Continent was destroyed by humans themselves. Only humans can destroy humans, even the powerful demon world... cannot do it."

"So I dare to send Xu in. Although I don't know that there are life forms that can be thought about here, I also believe that even if there is one, as long as there is not too much brains, there is no reason to look down on him because he is an abyss demon dragon, or kill him without any discrimination. Of course, if you are a fool, things may be exceptions. But sometimes we have to choose to let our children face some challenges and tests. Today, a demon dragon from the abyss has entered the inheritance gate of the Western Continent, and tomorrow, he may become a new human protector."
To be continued...